1. Transgender Citizenship and Settler Colonialism in Aphra Behn’s The Widow Ranter

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A mezzotint print depicting Semernia, the Native American queen; she stands before the lush savannah of Virgina, wearing a feathered headdress and a long fridged dress, while two young Black boys attend to her, one holding a parasol and the other holding her dress train.

William Vincent, A Character in Aphra Behn's "The Widow Ranter" (ca. 1690)

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Figure 1.1 William Vincent, A Character in Aphra Behn's "The Widow Ranter": Semernia, a Native American queen, with two pageboys (ca. 1690). Mezzotint. Wellcome Collection 4001i. Wellcome Collection Library, London. Image courtesy of the Wellcome Collection Library.
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